Kelly Clarkson’s new single I Hate Love features Steve Martin on the banjo

Kelly Clarkson’s long-awaited new album Chemistry – which deals with the emotions she went through during her divorce from Brandon Blackstock – is out June 23.

She released a new single called I Hate Love which references the Steve Martin movie It’s Complicated and also features him playing the banjo on the track.

“I hate love, and The Notebook lied,” she sings. “It’s Complicated is more like what’s happening, so you can keep Gosling and I’ll take Steve Martin.”

The Before He Cheats singer, 41, saw Martin playing banjo on live-streamed videos during the early days of the pandemic and spoke to her record producer about it

“I was like, ‘I know that sounds crazy,” the American Idol alum recalls. “Jesse Shatkin was like, ‘I think it sounds great.'”

Banjo: She released a new single called I Hate Love which contains a reference to the Steve Martin movie It’s Complicated and also features him playing banjo on the song; seen in 2009

In an interview with Billboard, the Since U Been Gone singer explained, “One is the beginning, when everything is bright and shiny, and It’s Complicated is more the reality.”

She said the 2009 romantic comedy Nancy Meyers starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin is one of her favorite movies, but she wasn’t about to have Martin star in the song it inspired.

The Favorite Kind of High singer referred to Baldwin’s cheating on his wife’s character versus Martin’s affable architect, saying, “Here’s what you should do seek and what you earn.’

“I generally don’t ask because I get really nervous when I bother people,” the Behind These Hazel Eyes hitmaker said.

“But literally, within hours my producer got a reply, ‘Oh my God, he would like it, when are you recording it?'”

“I just like the idea of ​​things happening organically,” Clarkson added. “So many things had to happen for that to happen.”

And she would love to have the Only Murders in the Building star on her talk show.

“My ideal time is for him to come on my show and then we perform — but I’m just taking him on my show so we can talk and hang out so I can meet him,” she said.

The Breakaway singer wrote most of the new songs during her divorce from Blackstock, 46, after seven years of marriage. The couple share daughter River, eight, and son Remington, seven.

Lyrics: “I hate love, and The Notebook lied,” she sings. ‘It’s Complicated is more like what happens, so you can keep Gosling and I’ll take Steve Martin’; seen in March

The Miss Independent singer sat down for an interview with Nancy O’Dell on TalkShopLive to talk about her album and say, ‘Having chemistry with someone is an incredible and overwhelming feeling. It’s like you have no choice in this.’

“You’re just attracted to each other. This can be good and bad. This album will take you down every path chemistry could lead you,” she added.

The Mr. Know It All singer revealed that she had never experienced such breathtaking chemistry until she met her music manager ex-husband.

“I never had any real contact before my ex-husband. And I’ve never interacted with anyone like that,” she said.

New Chapter: The Breakaway singer penned the most new songs during her divorce from Brandon Blackstock, 46, after seven years of marriage; seen in February

Music man: The Before He Cheats singer, 41, saw Martin playing banjo on live-streamed videos during the early days of the pandemic and talked to her record producer about it

‘I had never felt that before. That kind of chemical… that level of just chemical reaction, I just never felt that and I just remembered the first time we met, I was like ‘Woah.’ I just felt something.’

But not all chemistry is good, the Grammy winner experienced that during her divorce.

‘And then things can go very badly, chemistry. You can have great chemistry with someone you really shouldn’t be with, you know. Not that one person is good or bad, whatever. It’s just not a healthy environment.’

“I just feel like chemistry is a beautiful and amazing thing, but it’s powerful for good and bad. Let you do stupid things.’